Middle East & Africa News

Latest news and developments from Middle East and Africa regions

• EOI invited for consultancy services for transmission project in Angola

  October 1, 2021
  Angola’s state-owned electric transmission utility Rede Nacional de Transporte de Electricidade (RNT) is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) form international consultants for undertaking a feasibility study for the Gove-Menongue transmission project. The study aims to expand the Angolan national grid to Menongue, Cuando Cubango Province.

• Saudi Arabia to sign contract for interconnection project with Egypt

  October 1, 2021
  The Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy is expected to sign contract with Saudi Arabian power utility Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) for the Egypt–Saudi Arabia electricity interconnection project in a few days.

• CEPCO submits lowest bid for NEOM substation in Saudi Arabia

  September 29, 2021
  Recently, Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) opened bids for the construction of two 132/33 kV substations—PSS A and PSS B—in NEOM, Saudi Arabia. In total, 14 bids have been submitted with Civil and Electrical Projects Contracting (CEPCO) submitting the lowest bid of SAR255.6 million.

• British Xlinks announces Morocco–UK HVDC link

  September 28, 2021
  British company Xlinks has unveiled a GPB16 billion project that will link Morocco to UK via high voltage direct current (HVDC) cables to provide low-cost, clean power to over 7 million US homes by 2030.

• Uganda seeks bids for 132 kV mobile substations

  September 24, 2021
  Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) is seeking bids for the construction of two 132 kV mobile substations. The contract will be financed by funds from the World Bank-funded Grid Expansion and Reinforcement Project (GERP).

• Indian Kalpataru Power wins arbitration award against Rwandan utility

  September 24, 2021
  Indian engineering, construction and procurement (EPC) major, Kalpataru Power Transmission Limited (KPTL), has won an arbitration award against the Rwanda Energy Group (REG), worth more than USD32 million for the 220 kV Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)–Rwanda interconnection project.

• Gambia seeks consultants for electricity modernisation project

  September 23, 2021
  Gambian National Water and Electricity Company Limited (NAWEC) is seeking Expressions of Interest (EoI) for providing consultancy services for the review and update of the National Energy Policy, Strategies and Action Plan, for the Gambian Ministry of Energy.

• Evaluation of feasibility study proposals for second Ivory Coast–Burkina link begin

  September 21, 2021
  The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has commenced the evaluation of proposals submitted for undertaking the feasibility study of the second power interconnection between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.

• Nigerian TCN rations power supply for NDPHC

  September 20, 2021
  The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has rationed power supply in Plateau, Kaduna and Kano State, to enable Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) to connect the new Lafia substation to the national grid.

• Hyundai E&C submits lowest bid for Saudi section of link with Egypt [free access]

  September 17, 2021
  As per news reports, South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company Limited (Hyundai E&C) has emerged as the lowest bidder for constructing the Saudi line section consisting of 900-km-long overhead transmission line (OHTL), associated with the Saudi Arabia–Egypt interconnector.

• TANESCO invites bids for 400 kV substations under TAZA project

  September 17, 2021
  Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) has invited prequalification bids for the design, supply and installation of 400 kV substations at Iringa, Kisada, Mbeya, Tunduma and Sumbawanga, under the Tanzania–Zambia Transmission Interconnector Project (TAZA)

• Kahramaa commissions 132 kV Ain Sinan substation in Qatar

  September 15, 2021
  State-owned Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) recently commissioned the 132/11 kV Ain Sinan power substation to supply electricity to the surrounding residential areas.

• GE commissions Africa’s first fully digital substation in Senegal

  September 9, 2021
  GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has commissioned the first ever fully digital high voltage substation on the African continent. The 225 kV substation is located in Thiès, 70 km from Dakar in Senegal.

• El-Sewedy Electric's subsidiary signs two contracts with Egyptian EETC [free access]

  September 9, 2021
  El-Sewedy Electric for Trading & Distributing, a subsidiary of Egyptian El-Sewedy Electric, has been awarded two turnkey contracts by Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) worth EGP1.15 billion.

• Tanzania's TANESCO installs 27 transformers

  September 9, 2021
  Recently, Tanzania Electrical Supply Company (TANESCO) has installed 27 transformers at the construction site of Tanzania’s largest hydropower plant.

• Tanzania's TANESCO to construct 132 kV line in Mtwara region

  September 6, 2021
  Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (TANESCO) is currently undertaking a feasibility study for constructing a 132 kV power transmission line in the Mtwara region. The TZS132.7 billion project will span 395 km, and run from Songea to Masasi via Namtumbo and further to Tunduru and Nanyumbu.

• Elsewedy Electric and Toyota Tsusho complete HV substations’ contract in Iraq

  September 2, 2021
  Recently, Egyptian Elsewedy Electric, together with Japanese Toyota Tsusho Corporation, completed a turnkey project comprising four 400 kV and twelve 132 kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substations in Sothern Iraq.

• Saudi’s SEC receives lowest bid from AETCON and PACOST for HV projects

  September 1, 2021
  The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has received the lowest bids from Arabian Electrical Transmission Line Contracting (AETCON) and PACOST International for 380 kV and 132 kV projects, respectively.

• NamPower begins construction of 400 kV Auas–Gerus line

  August 31, 2021
  Namibia’s power utility NamPower has started the construction of the 287-km-long, 400 kV Auas–Gerus transmission line, which will run from the Auas substation near Dordabis, to the Gerus substation near Otjiwarongo.

• Nigeria commissions 132 kV substation in Anambra State

  August 25, 2021
  Recently, the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) commissioned the 132/33 kV Awka substation in Anambra State in Nigeria.